If Conquest Man was born during Cnut’s reign, that is, between 1016 and 1035, and died in his fifties, the arithmetic places his death between approximately 1071 and 1095, which fits the 1079 burial date comfortably.

This means he was born into a world where England was ruled by a Scandinavian king, where the Danelaw traditions of his region were politically and culturally legitimate, where the North Sea connections of the Humber were actively sustained by the relationships of the English crown with Denmark and Norway.

He then lived through the chaotic middle of the eleventh century: Cnut’s sons and the succession crisis, the restoration of the Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor, the complex politics of Edward’s reign, the disputed succession of 1066, Hastings, and the Norman transformation of English society.

The span from Cnut to William the Conqueror was a lifetime of constitutional upheaval.